ECONJEFF

A long pondered but only lately realized blog about economics, politics, evaluation, econometrics, academia, college football and whatever else comes to mind.

Saturday, December 21, 2024

New published paper: Bucky, Becky, and Student Financial Aid Policy Design

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Marifian, Elise, Jeffrey Smith, and Sarah Turner. 2024. "Bucky, Becky, and Student Financial Aid Policy Design." The ANNALS of the...

Saturday, May 25, 2024

Book: Our Strangers by Lydia Davis

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Davis, Lydia. 2023. Our Strangers: Stories. Bookshop Editions. An unusual but very engaging book of very short to really, really short ...

Saturday, April 13, 2024

LLM Moment of Zen

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On Microsoft Copilot: "It's like having a bad RA". - One of our doctoral students

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Saturday, February 17, 2024

Book: Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

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Christian, Brian and Tom Griffiths. 2016. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions . Holt. This book summarizes, in p...

Book: Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena

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Ikstena, Nora. 2015/2018. Soviet Milk . Peirene. A short, beautiful novel about an ugly time, and about the sorts of people who found life u...

Sunday, January 28, 2024

Economics Moment of Zen #19

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Senior colleague: "So basically its stuff that's not in the model?" Job candidate: "There are logit errors in the model....

Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Economics Moment of Zen #18

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"Having a superscript on a subscript is aggressive, but I kind of like it." One of my Wisconsin colleagues at a student seminar.

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